Archive for December, 2007

Bhutto Autopsy Scandal: Why Is This Even Considered Relevant?

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Apparently, a lawyer for the hospital that admitted Benazir Bhutto after the assassination attempt is claiming that a Pakistani Police Chief (Aziz Saud) denied doctors the opportunity to conduct an autopsy on Bhutto’s body. Saud denies this charge and states that he had recommended an autopsy be conducted, but that Bhutto’s husband objected. Bhutto’s husband, [...]

Reuters: Will You People Stop Using ‘Surge’ and ‘Post 9-11′?

Monday, December 31st, 2007

This is the time of year for lighthearted fluff for most news agencies and it is usually a welcome respite from hard news as we all get ready to celebrate the arrival of “Baby New Year.” The year-end list is a staple of that happy, fluff and we get them up the wazoo, for sure. [...]

More Lazy Reporting From UPI: Internet ‘Not Ideal’ For Political Ads

Monday, December 31st, 2007

As we point out on a daily basis, the MSM is heavily left leaning and biased. But this isn’t the MSM’s only failing. They are also extremely lazy. Leftist or not, and take little time to really think about the news nor do any research about what they are reporting. Take this UPI report for [...]

Empty Holsters, The New Student Protests

Monday, December 31st, 2007

December 30, 2007
Inspired by the history of College Protests against the “establishment,” the “Viet Nam War” and the perceived Social Injustices of the 1960’s decade, today’s College Students have once again began protesting on Campuses around the nation.
While memories of the College Student Protests of the 1960’s may bring visions of long haired, pot smoking [...]

Raped by Global Warming

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I can’t remember anything over the course of my lifetime being so forced upon me. 
Everywhere I go, I’m lambasted by “Green” messages from media and even retailers.  Today I was in Target and was assaulted by “Green” T-Shirts.  I went to Caribou Coffee and got the same crap from them.  I can’t turn on [...]

Liberalism’s Illiberalism

Monday, December 31st, 2007

It becomes ever more striking just how illiberal todays liberals are. A word that once represented a school of thought including the likes of James Madison, John Locke and John Stuart Mill now finds provides a comforting home for Marxism. No longer does liberalism represent freedom and tolerance of different views and ideas. Rather, those [...]

Sex? I Could Have SWORN This Was About Personal Responsibility…

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

In perusing the headlines at memeorandum today, there was quite a bit of a stir about a comment Huckabee made regarding gays.
The comment causing such a stir from Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: But when you say aberrant or unnatural, do you believe you’re born gay or you choose to be gay?
GOV. HUCKABEE: I don’t [...]

New Hampshire’s Upcoming Legislative Agenda

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

 As of the first of the year, forty new laws will go into effect in New Hampshire. The most controversial is that civil unions will now be performed in New Hampshire. New Hampshire will also recognize same sex marriages and civil unions performed in other states as legal.
 Some other laws that go into effect are, drivers [...]

Open Books: Oklahoma’s Finances Online

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Okie Campaigns congratulates Senator Randy Brogden, who said:

We are charged with being good stewards of the state’s resources…Making the appropriations process completely transparent and easily accessible to our citizens is simply the right thing to do, because in reality, every dollar the Legislature appropriates belongs to the citizens.
Senator Brogden explained that the Oklahoma program is [...]

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